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An Act more effectually to prevent Shopkeepers, Traders, and others, from dealing with Slaves, having no Tickets from their Owners, and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 1796 76 (1796)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0027 and id is 1 raw text is: 76 Als. (DEC. fuch citizen, or inhabitant, thall previoufly render to, and depofit with fome juftice of the quorum, a chedule of the negroes, or flaves, which he or (he intends to remove; which fchedule fuch perfon, or perfons, thall caufe to be recorded, previoufly to their 'being carried out of this Rate, in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas, of the diftrift in which fach perfon, or perfons refide, which fuch juftice (hall caufe to be recorded. And fuch citizen, or inhabitant, or his or her le- gal reprefentative, upop bringing back into this ftate the negroes, or flaves, or their iffue, fo removed, thalb immediately go before the faid magiftrate, or to fome other magiftate, if he be dead, pr out of office,. and produce the aforefaid fCcedule, or a true and certified tranfcript thereof, and iden- tify, upon oath, or affirmation, the flaves, fo brought back into this flate, as being the fame flaves, or their iffue, fo removed as aforefaid. Similar per- And whereas, Thomas Bacon, and other citizens of this flate, have million to T. applied for leave to bring negroes they have in Georgia, into this flate: Bacon and o Be it enaCted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid Thomas Bacon, and any other citizens, now refidents in this flate, who may be difpofed to remove their negroes from Georgia, into this ftate, be, and they are hereby permitted to remove into this flate fuch negroes; provided they furnifh a chedule, and do make oath, that the faid negroes were owned by them, previous to the palling of this law, and have been in Georgia four years previous thereto, and that they are not brought here for the purpofe of being fold. In the Senate Houfe, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ninetyfix, and in the twenty-fi rf year of the Independence of the United States of America. Prefident of the Senate. Speaker of the 1ufe of Reprefentatives. Freamble. HEREAS it is found expedient to adopt meafures, more effelual- VV ly to preVent flaves, without tickets, from 'dealing with thop keepers, traders and others, to the prejudice of their owners:, Be it 'therefore enalted by the Honorable the Senate and Houfe of Re- prefentatives, now met andfitting in General Affembly, and by the autho- rity

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